Undergarment



Jan. 5 1926.

A. c. PETERSON UNDERGARMENT Filed Jan. 9,

ATTORNEYS Patented Jan. 5, 1926.

UNITED STATES 1,568,917 PATENT OFFICE.

ADELINE C. PETERSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

UNDERGARMENT.

Application filed January 9, 1924. Serial No. 685,226.

To aZl whom it mag concern-r Be 1t known that I, ADELINE C. PETERSON,

a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented anew and Improved Undergarment, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention has relation to wearing apparel and has particular reference to an undergarment which is especially designed for women.

It is generally the practice to support the hose by means of hose supporters attached to the corset, but when corsets are not worn, no comfortable and effective means has llieen devised for properly supporting the ose.

It is, therefore, the outstanding object of the present invention to provide an undergarment which is equipped with. means for supporting the hose from the shoulders of the wearer, whereby the garment proper is relieved from the supporting r stresses or strains.

As a further object the invention contemplates in a garment of the character set forth a means for detachably associating the elastic and metal elements of the hose supporting means from the garment when aundering the same.

As a still further object the invention contemplates an undergarment of the character set forth which is extremely simple in its construction, inexpensive to manufacture, and which is highly efficient in its purpose.

With the above recited and other ob ects in view. the invention resides in the novel construction set forth in the following specification, particularly pointed out p in the appended claim and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, it being understood that the garment in between the hose engaging elements and the garment.

Fig. 5 is a sectional view therethrough taken approximately. on the line 55 of Fig. 4.

Referring to the drawings by characters of reference, 10 designates an undergarment such as a chemise, envelope chemise, or the like, which garments are usually constructed of a very delicate fabric. The garment 10 is provided with shoulder straps 11 which are secured to the waistband 12 and also secured at 13 to the top of the garment. A tab 14 is attached to the inside of the garment at the waistband at opposite sides thereof and said tabs, the lower ends of the-shoulders straps 11 and the waistband of the garment are secured together by a common line or lines of stitching 15. A pair of strips 16 of elastic webbing are detachably associated with the lower free end of the tabs and said strips are provided at their lower ends with hose gripping elements17 The detachable means of connection between the strips 16 and the tabs 14 as illustrated consists in the formation of buttonholes 18 in the lower end of the tabs through which the looped elements 19 at the upper end of the strips 16 are inserted. The looped elements 19 are permanently attached as at 20 at one of the1r ends to the upper end of the strips 16 and are detachably associated at their opposlte ends to the upper end of the strip 16 by separable fastening elements 21. This arrangement permits of the ready detachment of the hose supporting strips 16 from the garment when it is desired to launder the same. It will be noted that the point of securement of the shoulder straps 11 is such that the body 22 of the garment has a suflicient slack when the straps 11 are taut as to eliminate the strains or stresses of supporting the hose from the garment proper while said strains or stresses are earned directly by the straps 11. tabs 14 and the strips 16 from the shoulders of the wearer. In order to prevent lateral bulging of the garment at the waistband by the vertical strain and to lend a neater and more attractive appearance to the garment. shirr strings 23 are attached to the waistband of the garment and trained through guide tunnels 24, so that the garment may be gathered at the waistband as illustrated.

I claim:

The combination with a womans undergarment including a waist portion, of a pair of inverted U-shaped shoulder straps disposed upon the inside of the waist portion of the garment, each of said straps having its lower end connected to the Waist band of straps and providing for a vertical slack in the waist portion of the arment so that when the straps are taut t ey will relieve the garment body of the strains and stresses exerted on the straps supporting the hose, and hose supporting means connected to the band at points on the band where the free ends of each of the straps are connected to said band.

ADELINE C. PETERSON. 

